Circuit Board Repair Trace Repair

[jfrancis]

Hello,

I am somewhat new to repairing electronic components and forced a lead from a capacitor through a hole and broke off the printed circuit around the hole. I have seen conductive pens for repairing the copper trace and fix this sort of problem but because it it pretty expense to buy thought I would ask advice as to what is the best way to repair something like this. The pens I have seen are around $35 with shipping and it is just one trace around a hole that I need to repair.

Any thoughts?

John

 

[osterchrisi]

You could simply take a wire or even enameled copper wire, solder one end to the leg of your capacitor and the other end to where the trace should go. Seems easisest to me...

 

[rob_croxford]

Just Scratch away the trace to reveal the copper and solder the leg of your capacitor directly to that